Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — BEWARE OF BAD MEAT. [ARTICLE]

BEWARE OF BAD MEAT.

A Story of General Interest from the Cattle Lands, Reliable news of the greatest importance to cattlemen in all sections of the United States comes from the southern line of Kansas aud the pasture lands of Indian Territory. There has been for some time a suspicion among cattle dealers that the herds of native and Texas cattle which range in the Territory were afflicted with Texas fever, but nothing definite could be learned. A man named William Johnson has just returned from a trip to Oklahoma, and passed through the oountry where the herds are pastured. Ashe made the trip on horseback be was able to thoroughly investigate the trouble. He says that not only are the natives afflicted, but the thorough Texans are dying by hundreds in the pastures south of Arkansas pity. The symptoms are exactly the same as Texas fever, but thorough Texans have never been known to die of tbe disease before. He says cattle are being shipped to market from pastures where carcases are lying in hundreds, and of - the same brands as those shipped, and that they are considered good enough for canners’ stock, and "everything goes.” A colored man who bought 230 head of good natives and hod them in a pasture with thorough Texans has already lost over half at his herd and the rest are dying rapidly. This incident is repeated from several pastures and cattlemen are becoming much alagned. Among cattle raisers it is a prevalent belief that the disease is not Texas fever but something even more serious. It Is said the managers of the Kansas City Stock Yards will tako Immediate action upon the matter and try to prevent the shipping of the oattle from points where the disease is raging. Tbe report of Texas fever in the Cherokee country i* denied. The boy who goes barefooted J m any a bootless chase.